Natalie Barelli, The Accident

Eve happens to be in the right place at the right time when Kat's elderly mother starts choking on her lunch in her nursing home. A few pats on the back, and Eve is a hero. And Kat is in her debt. A friendship between the two quickly blossoms. Eve is just the greatest, and Kat is grateful enough to take Eve out to lunch, to offer her a job, to give her a place to stay. Eve very quickly insinuates herself into Kat's life, and then she isn't so great anymore.

The first half of this book was pretty frustrating since I cottoned on to what Eve was up to long before Kat did and because Kat, for all her alleged intelligence, was pretty stupid and irritatingly weak. I wanted to slap some sense into her and jolt her out of her helplessness. But then things picked up at about the 60% mark, and the story actually got downright riveting toward the end. A fun read.